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From The New Pantagruel (and originally American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, recently published by ISI):
PERHAPS no political term is quite so misunderstood as “anarchy.” In the popular press, it is a synonym for disorder and chaos, not to mention looting and pillage: countries like Haiti are always being “plunged into anarchy.” The anarchist, meanwhile, is frozen [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Philosophy
A la the Onion: "Illegal Mexican Wrestlers Taking Smackdowns Americans Don't Want."
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"The Age of Jackson."
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MIM Notes, the Maoist newspaper, has a web page dedicated to video-game reviews. Would Chairman Mao approve of Doom 3?
Filed under: Fun facts, Ideology, Pop culture, Uncategorized
Damon Linker has an interesting, and in places certainly misguided, piece on Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in the current New Republic. I should comment at greater length on the piece, but for now I'll just mention that one aspect of Neuhaus that Linker does effectively shed light upon is just how revolutionary — as [...]
Dreaded deadline doom is upon me, which is no less dreaded for being self-imposed. So in haste I'm just going to transcribe a few words from Robert Nisbet tonight, something I'll have recourse to now and again. This is from The Present Age, his last book:
In Western Europe, throughout the Middle Ages, the [...]
Filed under: Social criticism
…but that's good, says Charles Krauthammer:
Now all of a sudden everyone is shocked to find Iraqis going after Iraqis. But is it not our entire counterinsurgency strategy to get Iraqis who believe in the new Iraq to fight Iraqis who want to restore Baathism or impose Taliban-like rule? Does not everyone who wishes us well [...]
Remember the ’90s? Remember Hutchison-Whampoa, the Chinese firm that had Republicans up in arms because it won a contract to administer the Panama Canal? Josh Marshall remembers, and now he relays the news that Hutchison-Whampoa is going to be running the tests for nuclear materials at American ports Freeport, the Bahamian entrepot to [...]
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Who knew that Humphrey Bogart threw Love’s great-grandmother into a lake, or that three generations of the Fox / Carroll / Love line have written books? Probably not very good books — I’m not about to read any — but I had no idea Love had such a tangled and interesting family backstory.
The story [...]
Filed under: Books, Pop culture